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Finding Audrey
Name: Mrs Armstrong-Harris
19 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
If you like John Green's The Fault in Ours Stars (TFIOS) you will probably like this similar themed story. Audrey cannot leave the house, she can't even look at people's faces when she talks to them. This is debilitating her life; she doesn't go to school, she doesn't hang out with friends, she d...
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Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity
Name: June Hughes
18 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is another in a series of books featuring the exploits of Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face, the brother and sister mystery-solving duo from the isle of Great Kerfluffle. The mystery this time involves a group of missing evil and wicked badgers, stolen clothing, a swarm of bees (or maybe not) and...
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Puppy Academy: Scout and the Sausage Thief
Name: Kerra Dagley
16 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
Scout is a German Shepherd puppy at the Sausage Dreams Puppy Academy for working dogs in Little Barking. Her parents are both well-known working police dogs and Scout hopes to follow in their paw prints when she grows up. The story is set on an important day for Scout, as she gets ready to take...
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Creature teacher Goes Wild
Name: June Hughes
12 August 2015;Genre: Young fiction
Mr Hyde is a teacher with a difference. When he gets excited, he turns into a wild uncontrollable creature that leaps about and causes all manner of mayhem. He cannot stop himself from becoming Creature Teacher so Jake, Nora and their classmates have taken it upon themselves to protect him from t...
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Knight in Training - A Horse called Dora
Name: June Hughes
12 August 2015;Genre: Young fiction
This is the second in a series of books about Sam J. Butterbiggins and his quest to become a knight. Sam lives with his Aunt, Uncle and Cousin in Mothsdale Castle, a place which doubles as 'Luxury Holiday Accommodation for Dragons, Griffins and Other Regal Beasts', and, in the first book, he disc...
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The Big Lie
Name: Lorraine Ansell
12 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
'The Big Lie' is an original idea about life in England if Hitler had won the war. Told to us by 'Jessika', the daughter of one of societies higher members and a 'good girl', it is drip fed to us piece by piece - almost in the same way Jessika comes to realise the type of life she is really livin...
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Wigglesbottom Primary: The shark in the pool
Name: Dawn Woods
11 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is the second book about life at Wigglesbottom Primary school. Three chapters of madness designed to appeal directly to primary age children. These children are faced with really dangerous situations which demand action on their part, but not necessarily the reaction their teachers would ex...
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One
Name: Dawn Woods
10 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
Grace and Tippi are conjoined twins, something most people would dread. Living in America, they have been home educated by tutors and with that and hospital fees, finances are stretched. When their Father loses his job because of health issues, their Mother refuses to stop the counselling, so it...
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One Hundred Bones
Name: Rose Palmer
10 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
Dogs and dinosaurs! A winning combination! Young children will love this tale of Scruff the dog who is homeless and friendless, but who nevertheless exudes positivity and energy. He loves to dig , anywhere and everywhere, much to the disapproval of other - better brought up - dogs and their owner...
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William Heads to Hollywood
Name: Sue Wilsher
03 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
Someone has stolen the Golden Cuckoo Award statues and when William receives a plea for help from the glamorous Audrey Mieowski, he heads off to Hollywood to solve the case. Hancock's very distinctive artistic style somehow lends itself to portraying feline grace and elegance. Each spread is full...
